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I have cautioned the readers of this column many times not to get carried away with the energy trend du jour. It can be fatal to your enterprise. At the same time, I have cautioned you to watch for politically driven energy initiatives from governments. Being in industry for all the time that energy shortages and costs have been in the forefront, I have seen some really crazy expenditures, caused by companies and managers caught up in the hysteria of the day. We certainly need reliable energy sources to keep our enterprises operating in the present, but we must be careful in such times to do the best we can to perceive what may actually happen in the long run...

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Conifex Timber Inc. has reached an agreement with BW SLC Holdings, LLC, an affiliate of Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC and the minority shareholders of Caddo River Forest Products, LLC to purchase all of the outstanding membership interests of Suwannee Lumber Holding Company, LLC, Suwannee Timber Management, LLC and Caddo River Forest Products, LLC (collectively, the "BW Group").

Metsä Group has established a new innovation company, Metsä Spring Ltd. The company will, together with partner organisations, invest in new endeavours with the target to identify and develop new business opportunities in sustainable forest-based bioeconomy and circular economy.

Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) is disappointed by the statement released by Greenpeace. Greenpeace has been an integral partner in our sustainability journey since 2013, and their engagement and support has resulted in much progress in the fight against deforestation in Indonesia.

A former Kimberly-Clark employee accused of stealing more than $1.7 million from the company pleaded guilty in federal court to a related wire fraud charge Monday.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. Senate, led by Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine), have introduced a bill that would delay dumping tariffs and countervailing duties currently being applied to imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood (UGW), or newsprint, being used primarily by newspaper, book, directory and circular printers, as well as other publishers and printers

Smurfit Kappa Group PLC on Wednesday reiterated its rejection of a 8.9 billion euro ($10.6 billion) takeover approach from International Paper Co. IP, after regulators set a deadline for a formal bid.